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Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. St. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Louis. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 lo lus, cov me nyuam. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 xyoo. They replaced him with Desmond’s ex-assistant James Smith, who was dismissed by the previous board. How did one of the greatest, if not the greatest, detectives in
Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 15, 1903, hais txog 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office
Ua ntej nws tau nce mus Special Officer, St. Louis tub ceev xwm Preston Anslyn teb hu rau kev pab cuam ib yam li lwm yam patrolman. Lub ob hlis ntuj sawv ntxov 28, 1916, Anslyn muaj patrolling cov cheeb tsam hauv Franklin thiab hauv hom. Ib tug pej xeem qhia Anslyn tias 30 xyoo Albert Kivet yog qhuas tom qab nws lub hnub yug rau lub ob hlis ntuj 27th. Thaum nws revelry, Kivet assaulted
Nyob rau lub kaum hli ntuj 16, 1920, Tshwj xeeb cov neeg khiav dej num rau Preston Anslyn thiab William A. Moller tau tom qab muaj ob burglars hauv lub 3800 thaiv kev rov Avenue thaum ib tug hnyav pos huab. Ib yam lossis ob burglars tua tus neeg khiav dej num hauv lub gangway thaum lawv taug kev mus rau kev cov nyom ntawm ib lub tsev, qhov uas lawv xav tias nkag mus rau lub burglars. Cov neeg khiav dej num leej raug tuag ntawm tej qhov txhab, which killed
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis
Before reading Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect by Daniel Waugh, I knew and wrote about Robert Creed and his brother Thomas murdering St. Louis Police Officer George Geisler on Halloween Day 1920. What I didn’t know was Robert Creed was a member of the Cuckoo Gang, an ultra violent criminal organization in the 1920s. Robert Creed was the
Nyob rau lub kaum ib hlis 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney was leaving the St. Louis Country Club, when she was approached by two African-American men. The lighter skinned man told Mrs. Stickney to turn over her jewels or he would take them from her. Fearing kom nws muaj kev ruaj ntseg, Mrs. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, thiab $85.00 nyob rau hauv cov nyiaj ntsuab. Mrs.
Nyob rau lub Cuaj hlis 15, 1919, St. Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. Lub xyoo, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Thaum lub xya hlis ntuj nqeg 1902, William Rudolph, miner nyuam qhuav xa rov qab rau lub nras Franklin, thiab George Collins robbed lub sij hawm thaum pab neeg hauv pab neeg, MO. Lawv robbed nws pw, thaum sawv daws tsis tshwm sim los tshuab rau saum cov yas. Rudolph rov qab rau nws niam thiab txiv’ alarm hauv Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff